Question

Once a guest appeared on The Tonight Show, with former host Johnny Carson, and showed her collection of potato chips that resembled famous celebrities or historical figures. One example was a potato chip that was said to resemble Abraham Lincoln. In actuality, this guest was providing an example of:_______.
a. apoplexia.b. belief perseverance.c. the confirmation bias.d. patternicity.

Answer 1

Answer:

d. patternicity.                          

Explanation:

Patternicity: In psychology, the term patternicity is referred to as the propensity of an individual to explore meaningful patterns present in meaningless noise. According to scientists, researchers, or experimenters the term patternicity refers to an error in the cognition of human beings. An individual encounter a false positive or type I error while believing in something that is not being considered as real.

In the question above, the guest was providing an example of patternicity.